ETHIOPIA: QUEUES OF VOTERS PASS THROUGH POLLING STATIONS AS GENERAL ELECTION OPENS

Record ID: 328527

  • Title: ETHIOPIA: QUEUES OF VOTERS PASS THROUGH POLLING STATIONS AS GENERAL ELECTION OPENS
  • Date: 27th June 1969
  • Summary: VOTING POSTERS: CROWDS OUTSIDE POLLING STATION: CANDIDATE ZEWDE BADADA CAMPAIGNING AND SPEAKING TO VOTERS OUTSIDE POLLING STATION: PEOPLE LOOKING AT POSTERS: WOMAN VOTER GIVING THUMB PRINT: OFFICIAL HANDLING PAPERS: WOMAN VOTER ENTERING AND LEAVING VOTING ROOM: CROWD AND QUEUE OUTSIDE POLLING STATION: QUEUE ENTERING: WOMAN WITH VOTING CLERK: ANOTHER VOTER ENTERING: WOMAN VOTER ENTERING VOTING ROOM: PEOPLE WAITING OUTSIDE POLLING STATION. Initials EH/VS/JF/SS Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 12th July 1969 13:00
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  • Location: ADDIS ABABA
  • Country: Ethiopia
  • Reuters ID: LVA4B8F031FN1OMOWX6V9NZZFU8
  • Story Text: POLLING IN ETHIOPIA'S FOURTH GENERAL ELECTION BEGAN ON MONDAY MORNING (23 JUNE) WITH SOME 2,000 CANDIDATES RUNNING FOR THE 250 SEATS IN THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, WHICH IS PLAYING AN INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT PART IN RUNNING STATE AFFAIRS.

    IN ADDIS ABABA, HUNDRED OF PEOPLE WAITED IN LONG QUEUES FOR THE POLLING STATIONS TO OPEN.

    IN THE OUTLYING COUNTRY AREAS, PEOPLE WERE REPORTED TO BE MAKING THEIR WAY TO THE POLLS FROM AS FAR AS A DAY'S WALK AWAY. THE POLLING BOOTHS WILL REMAIN OPEN FOR TWO WEEK TO ENABLE ALL OF ETHIOPIA'S 5 1/4 MILLION VOTERS TO TAKE PART. RESULTS WILL BE KNOWN IN THE SECOND WEEK OF JULY.

    A PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM WITH UNIVERSAL ADULT FRANCHISE WAS INTRODUCED UNDER THE REVISED CONSTITUTION PROMULGATED BY EMPEROR HAILE SELASSIE IN 1955. THERE ARE NO POLITICAL PARTIES. A COMMON AIM EXPRESSED BY THE VARIOUS CANDIDATES IS FURTHER EXPANSION OF EDUCATION, AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE.
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